Our poetry team is starting the new year by publishing two new poems by Laurie Kuntz, titled 'Gilded' and 'This Personal Eclipse'.

Laurie Kuntz’s books are: That Infinite Roar, Gyroscope Press, Talking Me Off The Roof, Kelsay Books, The Moon Over My Mother’s House, Finishing Line Press,  Simple Gestures, Texas Review Press, Women at the Onsen, Blue Light Press, and Somewhere in the Telling, Mellen Press. Simple Gestures, won Texas Review’s  Chapbook Contest, and Women at the Onsen won  Blue Light Press’s Chapbook Contest.   She’s been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net Prizes.  In  2024, she won a Pushcart Prize.  Her work has been published in Gyroscope Review, Roanoke Review, Third Wednesday, One Art, Sheila Na Gig, Anti-Heroin Chic, and other journals. Happily retired, she lives in an endless summer state of mind.  More at: https://lauriekuntz.myportfolio.com/home-1

Recently Claire Beaver - one of our poetry editors - talked with the writer about her inspirations and her poetry more broadly.